My employer owns my work machine and supplies the network it's connected to. I accept that the employer's right to monitor his own equipment and network.
Unless you're one of the very few who think it'd be acceptable for employers to monitor all telephone calls on "their equipment," (or open US mail letters enclosed in "their envelopes") I call total bullshit on your argument. This bizarre concept that computers and networks are somehow different from previous means of electronic communication should be exposed for the fraud that it is.
Original statement: "Ringworlds are unstable." Response: "Only if they get hit by giant meteors."
No, that's incorrect. Larry mentions in one of is forewords that some nerdgeekcosmologists did a bunch of math to show that a ring spinning around a star is unstable in the sense that it'll drift such that the star is no longer at the center. Fortunately (back-filling:-) ) it turned out the Ringworld Engineers put in a bunch of stabilization mechanisms. The big meteor led to other problems.
Wait: TV sets which self-align vertical and horizontal hold.
Subway systems which run completely automatically (granted with all sorts of staff there to pull the Panic switch and/or make travellers feel more 'safe')
elevators which automatically go to requested floors.
Heck, IP packets which automatically make it to their intended destination.
I think this guy has no idea where and how software is running automated control systems.
To all those folks complaining about how hard it is to do accurate trustworthy billing for electricity at public outlets, how about this:
Since electric cars are all relatively new models, I'm guessing they have a modern CANbus. Let every public electric charging station have a unique ID which is readable via a couple data pins on the charging cable. Combine that ID with the amount of joules (or kWh if you insist) the automobile itself records having received, shoot that data via a cellular or similar (OnStar) connection to Central Billing.
By dominate I mean 2 of the last 3 prizes and a fraction of recent prizes that is far larger than the fraction of physicists that work on high energy physics. (I count 6 out of 21 prizes since 1995 in high energy physics, or 28% to a community that is something like 15% of the American Physical Society). We simply haven't figured out how to recognize the more important contributions in less reductionist and more applied areas of physics. Last year's prize for semiconductor LED breakthroughs was a step in the right direction. But going back to neutrinos so quickly reflects the prize committee doesn't really get it.
So, what you're really saying is that there needs to be a minimum average amount of rest mass per Physics Nobel Prize, and the recent trend is underweight?
As much as/.ers hate Joe Sixpack and his fascination with the Kardashians - they sure perk up their ears when their media darlings pontificate.
Guess it's my one day of the month to get trolled, so...
We listen to NdGT and ES because they say stuff that makes sense. Joe6P doesn't listen to the Kardashians: he stares at their boobs and butts. See the difference? (unless you're obsessed wth Snowden's butt, which I suppose is possible)
There's a much simpler solution to the water problem. Don't send meatbags. Do all the work with robots & advanced waldo systems. Even ignoring the water, you could afford to lose (completely) several robotic mining systems for the cost of one human-rated craft.
Take a quick look at the fate of whistle-blowers in the USA. Every single one, even those who finally (usually 10 to 15 years later) get their cash settlement, are blackballed within their industry, if not outright shunned by 'most everyone they knew in their former company. Typically a (USA) company engages in a propoganda war against the whistle-blower, starting with firing him for misconduct or violating IP or similar nonsense; then moving on to significant character assassination.
Whistle-blowing ain't gonna happen, so quit trying to blame the technical staff.
I'm so glad I now know that taking a selfie while swimming with sharks is not a good idea.
I propose that you're wrong for two reasons. The first is the infamous "two bombs on an airplane" theory: the number of people killed by sharks while taking a selfie (go ahead, mis-attribute my clause there and claim the shark has the camera!) is infinitesimal, so if you're going to swim with shartks, be sure to take a selfie. The second is the well-known "cancellation Hearts" rule: each dangerous item cancels out the other.
I'd usually finish my work fast and early and then be bored, and start distracting my neighbors. That began to earn me having my desk up closer to the teacher where she could keep an eye on me, or give me something else to do.
I would come up with new and creative things to do in class...
All of which in no way suggests ADD/ADHD. ADD kids are generally incapable of focussing on the assigned task and thus do **not** finish their work. Any vaguely competent teacher (or MD) can tell the difference between an ADD kid and a smart kid who's bored to the point of disruptance.
Didn't anyone RTFAT(itle)P(age) ?
If this position had any serious acceptance in the legal community, you'd think we'd know about it 36 years after publication.
Any lawyer can claim anything. Especially if you pay them. Getting other lawyers (judges in particular) to agree takes a little more work.
Clearly the automated barcode reader tool which should have grabbed boxes of dead rather than live anthrax has been co-opted by Skynet. Not as much fun as nuking cities, but leads to the same mountains of skeletons in the end.
"This post may cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars to distribute around the world. Are you sure you want to do that?"
In those days we invented all sorts of stupid initialisms to reduce message sizes. Just think how emojis could have helped. Remember, "a picture is worth 4k bytes"
No, I'm claiming that a large number of teens get into sex because of peer pressure.
And so long as you're citing medical reviews, please look up some of the work in the last decade or so on development of the frontal lobes and the established physical fact that teens (and in fact up to the late 20s) do not have the capability to make judgements about engaging in behavior which is both pleasurable and risky.
The question is not about how many people have had sex by age 18 (or 16), but whether this is really consensual sex in the first place.
While I agree that jail time is almost certainly counterproductive, I completely disagree with the premise that early-age sex is either psychologically or physically healthy behavior. Further, it really is rare that young women are engaging in a fully consensual manner. They may "want" to have sex as a way of "proving maturity," or to be part of the cool crowd, but that's a poor definition of 'consensual.'
A certain overly randy POTUS fired a very well-spoken Surgeon General who had the nerve to suggest that teens would be far better off both physically and mentally if they engaged in autoeroticism. High time we accepted that position and did whatever we can to reduce the societal pressures to have early sex.
Exactly. "Lethal" : a gun. Except a bullet can hit you in about 95% of your body area and not kill you.
"nonlethal" : taser. Mace. Billy Club. All of which can and have killed people.
Wordsmithing is getting worse all the time. Anyone want to define a WofNotMD? How fast/what range of killzone is required to be a WMD? An IED? It's a freaking BOMB, m'kay? Let's stop pretending weapons are something they aren't.
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My employer owns my work machine and supplies the network it's connected to. I accept that the employer's right to monitor his own equipment and network.
Unless you're one of the very few who think it'd be acceptable for employers to monitor all telephone calls on "their equipment," (or open US mail letters enclosed in "their envelopes") I call total bullshit on your argument. This bizarre concept that computers and networks are somehow different from previous means of electronic communication should be exposed for the fraud that it is.
Original statement: "Ringworlds are unstable."
Response: "Only if they get hit by giant meteors."
No, that's incorrect. Larry mentions in one of is forewords that some nerdgeekcosmologists did a bunch of math to show that a ring spinning around a star is unstable in the sense that it'll drift such that the star is no longer at the center. Fortunately (back-filling :-) ) it turned out the Ringworld Engineers put in a bunch of stabilization mechanisms.
The big meteor led to other problems.
Wait: TV sets which self-align vertical and horizontal hold.
Subway systems which run completely automatically (granted with all sorts of staff there to pull the Panic switch and/or make travellers feel more 'safe')
elevators which automatically go to requested floors.
Heck, IP packets which automatically make it to their intended destination.
I think this guy has no idea where and how software is running automated control systems.
To all those folks complaining about how hard it is to do accurate trustworthy billing for electricity at public outlets, how about this:
Since electric cars are all relatively new models, I'm guessing they have a modern CANbus. Let every public electric charging station have a unique ID which is readable via a couple data pins on the charging cable. Combine that ID with the amount of joules (or kWh if you insist) the automobile itself records having received, shoot that data via a cellular or similar (OnStar) connection to Central Billing.
Rules say has to be "Mainly Water" and nothing "that might harm the environment"
Obligatory Danger Warning: this rocket gives off Hydrogen Hydroxide!
I always thought that G stood for 9.8 metres per second squared
Warning: Physics Pedant Alert.
No, small "g" is the gravitational force at the earth's surface.
The big "G" (not to be confused with the big script G on Cheerios boxes) is the gravitational constant
F = Gm(1)m(2)/r^2 where m(j) are the two masses in question.
If you power an imaginary device with another imaginary device, you get a real one, right?
Depends on the connection. If you do it wrong way around, you end up with Quaternions
Sort of like watching your Ferrari going over a cliff driven by your mother-in-law
That's some funky mother - in-law you got if she can drive cliffs!.
By dominate I mean 2 of the last 3 prizes and a fraction of recent prizes that is far larger than the fraction of physicists that work on high energy physics. (I count 6 out of 21 prizes since 1995 in high energy physics, or 28% to a community that is something like 15% of the American Physical Society). We simply haven't figured out how to recognize the more important contributions in less reductionist and more applied areas of physics. Last year's prize for semiconductor LED breakthroughs was a step in the right direction. But going back to neutrinos so quickly reflects the prize committee doesn't really get it.
So, what you're really saying is that there needs to be a minimum average amount of rest mass per Physics Nobel Prize, and the recent trend is underweight?
If you can dig up a copy of Nanook of The North, you can watch actual Inuits create an actual igloo, with a block of ice installed as a window.
As opposed to photons of darkness?
It's proved fact. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/ZAP/
As much as /.ers hate Joe Sixpack and his fascination with the Kardashians - they sure perk up their ears when their media darlings pontificate.
Guess it's my one day of the month to get trolled, so...
We listen to NdGT and ES because they say stuff that makes sense. Joe6P doesn't listen to the Kardashians: he stares at their boobs and butts. See the difference? (unless you're obsessed wth Snowden's butt, which I suppose is possible)
There's a much simpler solution to the water problem. Don't send meatbags. Do all the work with robots & advanced waldo systems. Even ignoring the water, you could afford to lose (completely) several robotic mining systems for the cost of one human-rated craft.
Take a quick look at the fate of whistle-blowers in the USA. Every single one, even those who finally (usually 10 to 15 years later) get their cash settlement, are blackballed within their industry, if not outright shunned by 'most everyone they knew in their former company. Typically a (USA) company engages in a propoganda war against the whistle-blower, starting with firing him for misconduct or violating IP or similar nonsense; then moving on to significant character assassination.
Whistle-blowing ain't gonna happen, so quit trying to blame the technical staff.
I'm so glad I now know that taking a selfie while swimming with sharks is not a good idea.
I propose that you're wrong for two reasons. The first is the infamous "two bombs on an airplane" theory: the number of people killed by sharks while taking a selfie (go ahead, mis-attribute my clause there and claim the shark has the camera!) is infinitesimal, so if you're going to swim with shartks, be sure to take a selfie.
The second is the well-known "cancellation Hearts" rule: each dangerous item cancels out the other.
"... or you don't get no spending cash"
Presumably robots can't talk back anyway.
I'd usually finish my work fast and early and then be bored, and start distracting my neighbors. That began to earn me having my desk up closer to the teacher where she could keep an eye on me, or give me something else to do.
I would come up with new and creative things to do in class...
All of which in no way suggests ADD/ADHD. ADD kids are generally incapable of focussing on the assigned task and thus do **not** finish their work. Any vaguely competent teacher (or MD) can tell the difference between an ADD kid and a smart kid who's bored to the point of disruptance.
Didn't anyone RTFAT(itle)P(age) ?
If this position had any serious acceptance in the legal community, you'd think we'd know about it 36 years after publication.
Any lawyer can claim anything. Especially if you pay them. Getting other lawyers (judges in particular) to agree takes a little more work.
Hop on over to http://watchismo.com/ and take a look at the high-priced items available there.
Not that there aren't plenty of seriously ugly watches under $200...
Clearly the automated barcode reader tool which should have grabbed boxes of dead rather than live anthrax has been co-opted by Skynet. Not as much fun as nuking cities, but leads to the same mountains of skeletons in the end.
10 years from now the F35 will be hopelessly obsolete.
10 years ago
FTFY
We really needed them? as in:
"This post may cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars to distribute around the world. Are you sure you want to do that?"
In those days we invented all sorts of stupid initialisms to reduce message sizes. Just think how emojis could have helped. Remember, "a picture is worth 4k bytes"
No, I'm claiming that a large number of teens get into sex because of peer pressure.
And so long as you're citing medical reviews, please look up some of the work in the last decade or so on development of the frontal lobes and the established physical fact that teens (and in fact up to the late 20s) do not have the capability to make judgements about engaging in behavior which is both pleasurable and risky.
The question is not about how many people have had sex by age 18 (or 16), but whether this is really consensual sex in the first place.
While I agree that jail time is almost certainly counterproductive, I completely disagree with the premise that early-age sex is either psychologically or physically healthy behavior. Further, it really is rare that young women are engaging in a fully consensual manner. They may "want" to have sex as a way of "proving maturity," or to be part of the cool crowd, but that's a poor definition of 'consensual.'
A certain overly randy POTUS fired a very well-spoken Surgeon General who had the nerve to suggest that teens would be far better off both physically and mentally if they engaged in autoeroticism. High time we accepted that position and did whatever we can to reduce the societal pressures to have early sex.
Exactly.
"Lethal" : a gun. Except a bullet can hit you in about 95% of your body area and not kill you.
"nonlethal" : taser. Mace. Billy Club. All of which can and have killed people.
Wordsmithing is getting worse all the time. Anyone want to define a WofNotMD? How fast/what range of killzone is required to be a WMD? An IED? It's a freaking BOMB, m'kay? Let's stop pretending weapons are something they aren't.